Jim Chee

Jim Chee (1972-) was a Navajo tribal police detective from Shiprock, New Mexico.

Biography
Jim Chee was born to a Navajo family in New Mexico, and he became a police detective while attending the FBI Academy; he was also an aspiring medicine man. In 2002, he was partnered with veteran policeman Joe Leaphorn to solve the murders of several people on the Navajo reservation, and Chee was nearly killed in the process. Ultimately, the perpetrator, Bahe Yellowhorse, was killed.